Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:42
I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all.
And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street,
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.
And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.
And I somehow fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,
Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,
While he faced the round eternal of the cashbook and the journal -
But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of "The Overflow".
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Follow Up By: Fatso - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:46
Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:46
That appeared in the Bulliten on the 21st of December 1889.
It hasn't quite lost its relevance yet
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Follow Up By: Shaker - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 18:18
Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 18:18
Have you heard Wallis & Matilda's version of that?
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Follow Up By: Wilko (Parkes NSW) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:40
Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:40
Thanks Fatso,
Its why I live in the country and not the septic er I mean city.
Cheers Wilko
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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:58
Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:58
Just THE most appropriate Follow-Up I've ever read Fatso.
I read it out to our travelling companions; I was choking up....
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Follow Up By: Member - David M (SA) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:46
Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:46
Right on Shaker. Only surpassed by the "Man from Ironbark".
Dave in
Laverton, looking for a bit of yellow.
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